Sheikh Zeyd of Al Jawf

Sheikh Zeyd of Al Jawf (740-) was the Steward of the Abbasid Caliphate under al-Mansur.

Biography
Zeyd was born in 740 to the Banu Kalb, a dynasty of Sunni Muslim Bedouin in present-day Saudi Arabia. He became the sheikh of Al Jawf in northern Arabia and later the steward of al-Mansur.